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Four WSU graduate students are among the 25 individuals selected to receive highly competitive scholarships from the American Society for Enology and Viticulture.

Chad Kruger, current director of WSU’s Northwestern Washington Research & Extension Center (NWREC) in Mount Vernon, the Puyallup Research & Extension Center, and the Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources (CSANR), will become the…

WENATCHEE, Wash. — The advisory committee to the Pest Management Transition Project will meet next week in Ellensburg. The meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 28 from 10 am to 3 pm in the Hal Holmes Community Center, 209 N. Ruby Street in Ellensburg. The meeting is open to the public and the agenda provides […]

WENATCHEE, Wash. – Elson S. Floyd, Ph.D., Washington State University’s new president, will be the featured speaker at the dedication ceremony for the university’s new tree fruit research orchard southeast of Wenatchee on Thursday, Sept. 20. The dedication begins at 10 a.m. at the new orchard, which is located approximately 20 miles southeast of Wenatchee […]

WENATCHEE, Wash. – Literally thousands of young fruit trees will be planted at the new Washington State University research orchard near the Palisades Road southeast of Wenatchee on Highway 28 Wednesday through Friday. Media are welcome to cover the plantings beginning this afternoon and should contact Jay Brunner, director of the WSU Tree Fruit Research […]

WENATCHEE, Wash. — Virtually every second grader in Wenatchee, nearly 700 students, will leave their classrooms next week to spend two days in the orchards of the Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center. The fifth annual “Awesome Apple Adventure” field experience will bring the students to the facility, along with teachers, parent […]

WENATCHEE, Wash. — Second graders from Wenatchee and Eastmont schools will spend the next two days touring the Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, learning about the importance of apples to the Wenatchee Valley. “This will be the third official ‘Awesome Apple Adventure’ event we’ve held at the station,” according to director […]

WENATCHEE, Wash. — “Compost: A Resource for Western Agriculture,” the second in a series of three national satellite teleconferences on composting, can be viewed at 8:30 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, 1100 N. Western Ave. The two-hour broadcast will include video footage of operations that […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — A satellite teleconference on composting is scheduled at 8:45 a.m., Nov. 5, at the Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee. The two-hour broadcast:  “Composting: A Tool for Western Agriculture,” will include film coverage of composting sites in the West and a live question and answer period with […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — The “1998 Crop Protection Guide for Tree Fruits in Washington” will never win any literary awards, but it’s always a best seller in the central part of the state where more than $1 billion worth of apples, cherries and other fruits are harvested each year. “My guess is there is probably a […]